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NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
July 3, 2000
New European Online Magazine: CULTIVATE INTERACTIVE
Launch Issue Now Available
=3Chttp://www.cultivate-int.org/=3E
From: Marieke Napier =3CM.Napier=40ukoln.ac.uk=3E
Subject: Welcome to Cultivate Interactive Web magazine
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:00:24 +0100
Apologies for cross posting
Welcome to Cultivate Interactive
Cultivate Interactive is a new pan-European Web magazine which is funded =
under
the European Commission's DIGICULT programme.
=3Chttp://www.cultivate-int.org/=3E
Cultivate Interactive is aimed at the European cultural heritage community
including IT staff, information professionals, researchers, managers, policy
makers, libraries, museums, archives, galleries, non-profit making
organisations.
The launch issue is online today and has lots to offer. The highlights =
include:
Feature Articles
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Digital Heritage and Cultural Content in the New Information Society
Technologies Programme
=3Chttp://www.cultivate-int.org/issue1/ist/=3E
Bernard Smith, Head of the Cultural Heritage Applications Unit of the
European Commission, describes the Information Society Technologies (IST)
programme's recent calls for proposals. He talks about the new focus of =
digital
heritage and cultural content and the effects this change will have.
The ASH project: A Virtual Control Room
=3Chttp://www.cultivate-int.org/issue1/ash/=3E
Jrgen Begh reports on the Virtual Control Room being developed in the IST
project ASH (Access to Scientific Space Heritage). The Virtual Control Room =
will
provide an exciting environment for young students to learn about space and
astronomy by carrying out a simulated space mission.
DELOS: A Network of Excellence for Digital Libraries - Promoting and
Sustaining Digital Library Research and Applications in Europe
=3Chttp://www.cultivate-int.org/issue1/delos/=3E
The DELOS Network of Excellence for Digital Libraries aims at providing an =
open
context in which an international agenda for future research in the digital
libraries domain can be developed and continuously updated.
Supporting Europe's Entrepreneurs and Innovators with Intellectual Property
Issues
=3Chttp://www.cultivate-int.org/issue1/ipr/=3E
Alexander Weir talks about Intellectual Property issues, a key issue for
Europe's enterprise society.
British contemporary art at your fingertips: the Axis Database
=3Chttp://www.cultivate-int.org/issue1/axis/=3E
Robin Bourne introduces the only national information resource on British
artists and makers containing visual and textual data on over 3,300 =
contemporary
British practitioners.
Regular Articles
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DIGICULT Column
=3Chttp://www.cultivate-int.org/issue1/digicult/=3E
Concha Fernndez de la Puente provide news of the European Commission's
initiatives in the field of digital heritage and cultural content.
Metadata: Standardisation of Dublin Core in Europe:
=3Chttp://www.cultivate-int.org/issue1/mmidc/=3E
Leif Andresen and Ian Campbell-Grant discuss how the Information Society
Standardization System (ISSS), the European Committee for Standardization's
platform for standardisation in information technology, has worked towards a
metadata standard through various workshops.
Other Areas
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News =26 Events, an explanation of the CULTIVATE logo, the European City
competition, the Misc section.
If you have any queries regarding Cultivate Interactive or writing for
Cultivate Interactive please send them to =
=3Ccultivate-editor=40ukoln.ac.uk=3E
The CULTIVATE Web site
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The CULTIVATE Web site supports one of the most important CULTIVATE =
objectives:
information dissemination. The Web site will provide a searchable main site =
with
the additional functionality of cross searching the national node Web sites =
and
the CULTIVATE magazine, Cultivate Interactive.
The CULTIVATE Web site is available from today at:
=3Chttp://www.cultivate-eu.org/=3E
The content of the CULTIVATE Web site includes:
Information on the project, partners, aims, objectives and activities
Links to the other CULTIVATE services
Monthly News Update
Information on the IST Programme
Information on Calls for Proposals in the Digital Heritage and Cultural
Content area
Information on project results
Links to related sites.
The CULTIVATE Web site has been developed as part of the wider CULTIVATE =
project
with input from all project partners. The content of the site has been =
developed
by The Library Council (Ireland) in consultation with other project =
partners.
All content related queries should be forwarded to =
=3CAnnkelly=40libcounc.iol.ie=3E.
The Web site design and technical implementation have been developed by the
Institute for Learning and Research =
Technology=3Chttp://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/=3E. All
technical Web site queries should be forwarded to =
=3Ccultivate-web=40bristol.ac.uk=3E.
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